Packing cover



, J. P. WARD 1313.724

May 21, 1929.

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WHNESEES 2 V TTORNEY Patented May 21, 1929.

UNITED STATES JAMES P. WARD, OIE' CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PACKING COVER.

Application filed March 22, 1927.

This invention relates to a packing and shipping cover designed to protect the deli Cate parts and adjustments of a typewriter from damage while in the process of packing, in transit, and while being unpacked.

The invention seeks to provide such a cover which may be made knocked down and later assembled when ready for use, or it can be completed ready for use.

The cover of the invention may be made out of any rigid or semirigid material such as wood, sheet metal, sheet fibre, corrugated board, etc.

It has been the custom in the typewriter industry to tie down all moving parts of the machine to prevent damage in hz'indling and shipping. Often such parts are tied sotirmly that they break or are bent out of adjustment because they cannot give enough to absorb the violent shocks to which they are subjected. This cover is purposely designed to cushion such parts and adjustments so that while held in place with reasonable firmness, they can move just enough to prevent such damage from violent handling.

The whole protective covering made out of materials as specified above and shaped like an inverted box is set over the top of the typewriter and then is tied or bound around the underside of the typewriter with any material ordinarily intended for tying or binding, such as cord, rope, steel strapping, etc.

The cover is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a typewriter packed ready for shipment with the cover in place.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the cover opened up.

Figure 3 is a perspective of the cover looking at the inside thereof.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the typewriter ready for shipment with the cover in place, the view being taken from the side.

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 4, but looking from the bottom of the machine.

The cover is composed of a body generally designated as 1, provided with front and back edges 6 and 4, respectively the back edge being longer than the front edge, and conforming generally with the contour of the typewriter housing, the periphery of the box is adapted to be bent along the dotted Serial No. 177,422.

lines shown in Figure 4, the corner 3 being folded and stapled when the box is formed, as shown in Figure 3. The top of the box is provided with apertures such as shown at 8 for example, which are adapted to receive projecting parts of the typewriter mechanism, such other parts which are related to, or function with the pieces which project through these holes being thereby freed from any risk of damage, and so are always left in their normal adjustment. The projecting parts of the mechanism are protected in their adjustment by having no packing material of any kind making contact with them. Such parts as the line space lever, and the paper release lever, therefore, can travel without being bent or damaged.

The cylinder knob of the typewriter is frequently broken because of rough handling in shipment. Because this protective covering properly covers and cushions this cylinder knob the danger of damage to this knob is practically eliminated. On the left end of the carriage on most typewriters a similar knob or variable line spacer device is mounted. This too, is often bent or damaged in shipping, which damage is prevented by the cover of the present application. The whole cover is firmly anchored in place by the fact that the ends of the carriage way rod presses firmly at all times against the inside of the protective covering at each end. Hence, the relative rigidity of the protective covering to the machine and its parts is always maintained. In fact the cover of the present application will protect and cushion all moving parts of the typewriter mecha nism, which may be subject to breakage or damage. The cushioning effect of the cover is considerable and the degree of protection which it affords is therefore large.

The cover can be readily made up to be used with all sizes and widths of typewriters, including models known as 12, 14", 16, 20 and 26 and in being used with these wider machines, identically the same protection to the various parts and mechanisms is afforded as detailed theretofore for typewriters of the ordinary size.

I claim In a device for maintaining the relatively movable parts of a typewriter against movement while in shipment, a top member to rest upon the top of a typewriter and having depending side and end Walls which shifting, said top member having aplurality embrace the typewriter carriage and frame of openings therein adapted to receive the and project below the carriage, and the end usual upwardly projecting parts of the type- 10 Walls being disposed in close proximity'to Writer carriage, the walls of such openings the laterally projecting parts of the typeholding the upwardly projecting parts Writer carriage and frame to maintain the against shifting.

carriage against accidental longitudinal JAMES P. WARD. 

